Day 40-42 – Scorching London
London is meant to be a cold, drizzly and grey place. It was completely the opposite when we landed at Heathrow. We felt it first when we stepped off the plane and were loaded into a non-airconditioned bus that took us to the terminal. Fortunately, the terminal was cool. It was very quick getting through customs. Similar machines to what we have in NZ and Australia. We collected our bags and headed to the platform for the Piccadilly line only to find that trackwork was being done over the weekend. So instead, we were directed to the Elizabeth line. It is a new line and is well set up for taking people from the airport to central London, Paddington specifically. We had to take the District line from Paddington and I am sure that I managed to find the most difficult way to get to the platform having to carry our heavy bags down several flights of stairs. We dropped our bags at the hotel and then took the tube into C...